Browsing Editados por otras instituciones by Author "Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam"

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The history of 20th century malaria control in Peru

Griffing, Sean M.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam (BioMed Central, 2013)

Malaria has been part of Peruvian life since at least the 1500s. While Peru gave the world quinine, one of the first treatments for malaria, its history is pockmarked with endemic malaria and occasional epidemics. In this ...
Multiple genetic origins of histidine-rich protein 2 gene deletion in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from Peru

Akinyi, Sheyla; Hayden, Tonya; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Torres Fajardo, Katherine Jessica; Bendezu, Jorge; Abdallah, Joseph F.; Griffing, Sean M.; Quezada, Wilmer M.; Arrospide, Nancy; De Oliveira, Alexandre Macedo; Lucas, Carmen; Magill, Alan J.; Bacon, David J.; Barnwell, John W.; Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam (Springer Nature, 2013)

The majority of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) detect Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2), encoded by the pfhrp2 gene. Recently, P. falciparum isolates from Peru were found to lack pfhrp2 leading ...

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